120 Minutes Playlist Statistics

Nice chart, BTW you need to combine Pixes and The Pixies. There may be more "The" problems, but that's the one that caught my eye.

Peter Murphy, Should the World Fail to Fall Apart era, was on 120 minutes. I can add a few more later tonight if you are interested.

I don't have any playlists. I just have bunches of artists who were featured at some point and whose appearance moved me to purchase their music.

Wow. I remember as a kid watching 120 minutes, and thinking the bands seemed so non-mainstream and alternative. But now, looking at the list, it's a like a who's-who of great bands. In fact the list looks pretty mainstream. Man, what the hell was mainstream on MTV back then?

This is a great start, the list is definitely weighted toward the later period of 120 minutes as Andy has already indicated. I wish I still had access to the occasional tape that I made in its early years. Prior to (and possibly concurrent with) 120 minutes wasn't there also a short "alternative" program Post Modern MTV or was it MTV Post Modern?

Also, in terms of de-duping the list:

Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Red Hot Chilli Peppers

(these two were next to each other)

and,

REM,
R.E.M

(these two were spread apart)

Another interesting study would be to trend the top 20 in CD sales and see how much (or little) lag there was from the 120 minute debut to becoming a major-selling CD. So many of the bands listed became mainstreamm favorites.

Wow, nearly every band i listen to is listed. I wish i knew that such a show existed, and I would have watched it...

Damn, those were the good old days. I can't remember the last time I saw Radiohead on MTV. Seems like it's mostly rappers these days.



Where has the real music gone?

I found 120 Minutes in the early '90s and had to have a friend tape it for me (I didn't have cable until I got to college). So I still have a few shows on tape floating around somewhere. I vividly remember a show with John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, plugging his latest PiL CD.

Thanks for the link, Andy. I just sent them the playlists from the few I had recorded from spring 2000. Luckily, I had recorded the metadata in MSWorks at the time.

> Seems like it's mostly rappers these days.

Haha, that's what my friends and I were saying 10 years ago (1994)!

I remember watching 120Minutes as a kid , I loved it !

Neds Atomic Dustbin appears to sadly be missing, they were on a bunch. Teenage Fanclub, Aztec Camera, Havana 3am... truly the greatest show of the early 90's - we used to tape it to re-watch it for weeks. Big ups to Dave Kendall, sadly missed on Sunday nights.

I have many 120 minutes taped on VHS from College 1994 - 1997. I can dig them up if there is interest.

Ishu

I remember watching 120Minutes as a kid , I loved it !

I have a bunch of 120 mins shows complete on dvd. from the 1991-1995 era. I would love to get some more, if anybody wants to trade, please email me ASAP
thanks
brian

Brian,

I'd love to trade for some of those 120 Minutes episodes, please email me.

Hey I don't know how active this forum is but i am interested in any shows from 92-96. cheers everyone.

Heres my email melonforthought@yahoo.ca

Hmm, I don't see MIracle Legion. You're the One lee appeared on there at one point.

If anyone wants to trade episodes or have their old VHS tapes of 120 Minutes converted to DVD email me at bionicbigfoots@gmail.com

I'd love to see this stuff again.